Open Apology

My wife and I are feeling really worn down over this Spanish visa thing. If it doesn't end soon, I think we'll both go mad

Open Apology

To all my friends, colleagues and family, I’m sorry that I was not around over Christmas and the New Year to receive and return your best wishes, if you sent any.

Neem feels the same, but this is the hardest thing that we have ever had to face together.

Neem and I are battling over her visa to stay in Spain with me. As the legitimate spouse of an EU national, it is her right to be able to move freely about Europe with me, and as an EU citizen, it is my right to be able to have my wife with me, but it seems that the Law and how it is interpreted are two completely different things.

Spain interprets a ‘long-standing, meaningful relationship’ to mean marriage, although that is not what the directive states (EU Directive 38). However, we have been married for eight years and they are still making it difficult for us.

What sort of a kick do they get out of that, eh?

So, we have been concentrating on Neem’s visa and the ‘festive season’ has passed us by.

Just recently, I ‘heard’ my computer’s first death rattle… Or rather saw it, in the Blue Screen of Death. It has happened twice now, and it will soon give up the ghost… just when I need it the most and have the least money to buy a new one (I need to keep a minimum in the bank to ‘ensure’ Neem’s visa).

We will get there, by the Grace of God, but my manners have suffered while doing my bit too.

So, sorry once again, but we did wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in our hearts 🙂

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All the best,

Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.